Check-holder.



W. B. HILDENBRAND.

CHECK HOLDER.

APPLIoATIoN FILED APB. 27.1908.

9 1 7,864 Patented Apr. 13, 1909.

Jing. 2.

WILSON B. HILDENBRAND, OF NORBISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April. 27, 1908.

Patented April 13, 1909.

Serial No. 423,331.

T o all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that l, VILSON B. HiLDnN- mann, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residi ing at Norristown, in the county of Montgomery and Stateof Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useiul Improvements inCheck-Holders, of which the iollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to checlr holders for holding checks used inbarber check systems, the object being to provide very novel leans forsupporting the checks so that they an be readily inserted and removed.

The holder consists of a back adapted to be secured to a wall or anyother suitable object having a pair of guide strips secured on its faceforming guide-way, between which the cheeks are arranged in consecutiveorder, the guide strip being provided with spring members at their lowerends for holding the cheeks in position, and allowing the same to bereadily removed.

These objects are obtained by the novel arrangement and construction or'parts hereinaite" fully described and shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure l, is a perspective view ot my improved checkholder. Fig. 2, is a vertical section through the same, and Fig. 3, is atransverse sec-tion.

ln carrying ont my improved invention l employ a bach board A, which isof any suitablev design having -a notch A', at its lower end, adapted tobe secured Ato the wall or any other suitable support.

Secured on the :tace of the back is a pair of guide strips B, B',forming a guide-way, which extend down below the end of 'the notch andare provided with ilat spring members C, at their loweil end, whichnormally rest against the back and are adapted to support the numberedchecks D, arranged between the guide strips. The guide strip B, islonger than the guide strip B', and is provided with a cut out portionB2, at its upper end, whereby the checks can be readily inserted betweenthe same.

ln use the checks are arranged between the guide strips as shown at l?l, and as a person enters the shop, he is given a check so that he willknow when his turn comes to receive a chair, and after it is turned in,it placed in the upper end of the guide-way.

liroin the foregoing description it will be seen that l have provided acheck holder which is exceedingly simple and cheap in construction, andone which will hold the eher-ks in position "ithout any danger or Vthemfalling` out, and yet allowing the same to be readily removed by simplygrasping the lower check and pulling the same out trom under thesprings, the notei allowing the fingers to be readily inserted under thecheck. v

l-laving described my invention what l claim as new and desire to secureby Letters lf'arent' is :se

A eheclr holder or' the kind described coinprising a baclrbcard having anotched lower end, guide strips arranged on said backboard forming aguide way to receive checks and having inwardly projecting longitudinaltlanges, one or' said guide strips at its upper end being longe-r thanthe other and having the inwardly projecting frange cut away, the lowerends ot' said strips being longitudinally slotted parallel to saidbackboard, and i'iat independent spring members inserted in said slotsand extending' inwardly and downwardly against the lower ends or saidbacl'zboard on either side of said central notch and bearing againstsaid backboard for supporting the checks within the gnideway.

ln testimony whereof l have signed my name to this speciiication in thepresence ot two subscribing witnesses.

lVlLSON B. llLDENBRiND.

lllitnesses M. C. Lrnoaivn, C. C. Porre..

